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She seemed especially believable — and correct, to boot — when she argued on the first day of public hearings that protecting America’s fragile democracy is a bipartisan obligation, that members of Congress owe allegiance to the Constitution not to their party and that to defend Trump is to defend the indefensible.

However, the DNI report said intelligence agency assessments found China promotes the false narrative that people of Chinese descent owe allegiance to China “neither race nor ethnicity is the primary criterion utilized by the PRC’s intelligence services in their recruitment of intelligence assets.”

“Those are sorrowful tidings. He is a kinsman and I owe allegiance to the House of Don. But why do you blame his death on me? If Gwydion has bought my life, at least tell me how, and I shall mourn with you.”

Iran, meanwhile, wields vast military influence in Iraq through a network of militias that, although nominally under the authority of Iraqi security forces, owe allegiance to Iran.

But Anna and Elsa still have a stake in Northuldra because the revelation about their mother means that they owe allegiance to both lands . . . and are biracial, something Henry Louis Gates, Jr. would have been thrilled to reveal.